Walkden's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1958
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brown's Case · Murphy's Case · Bloom's Case · Ruddy v. George F. Blake Manufacturing Co. · McLean's Case
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled by Brown’s Case, 228 Mass. 31 , 116 N. E. 897 and Murphy’s Case, 226 Mass. 60 , 115 N. E. 40 , that because knowledge on the part of the employer is a substitute for the written notice the employer must have knowledge within the time when the written notice should have been given. The word ‘knowledge’ is used in the statute in its ordinary sense as meaning actual knowledge, but not absolute certainty. While notice of what has happened is not actual knowledge that the employee has been injured, it is such information as men usually act upon in ordinary human affairs. ‘Intelligible information of a fact, either verbally or in writing, and coming from a source which a party ought to give heed to, is generally considered as notice of it, except in cases where particular forms are necessary.’ George v. Kent, 7 Allen (Mass.), 16, 18.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.